Narratives...story telling with online inspiration

Storybird is a creative tool that can inspire students to write!  The beautiful and often fanciful artwork promotes the expression of endless ideas.

Our class has recently produced a variety of stories - enjoy!

Now...of course with all writing, authors must look at their work and notice what could be added or changed to make improvements.  As you read these stories boys and girls, remember to notice what you could change and improve next time!

**Remember students...in order for your "Storybird" to be posted on our blog you need to "publish it" first. Before publishing, please edit spelling and punctuation.  Too many errors and your story will not be posted!

HOW TO....writing procedural texts

After reading many procedural texts by other authors our class was finally ready to write their own.  The best topic an author can choose is something they know about - this will make the writing process feel so much easier!

Students also incorporated the non-fiction features they learned about to make their "how to" text easy to understand and interesting to read.  

We hope you enjoy our procedures and maybe even try writing one yourself!

Have you ever had something go missing?

Our class has been working hard on some 
adventure stories!  
Each story tells a tale about something that has 
gone missing.  
Some endings are happy, others are not...but all these stories are enjoyable to read!

What did these authors do well?

How could they improve their stories?
You can leave a comment to let us know.

By: Nick

By: Tom

By: Alex

By: Cole

By: Rebeka

By: Stephanie

By: Luke

Media texts galore!

Here they are...the remaining media texts that students have been working on.

You will definitely notice how the students have learned to  use coloured font, photos, and images to capture your attention.  

New Elves Seeking Employment at the North Pole

During the month of December students enjoyed stories about how Santa got his job as well as how the elves first came to meet Santa. Students were especially keen to share ideas about the skills and talents that Santa and the elves would have acquired during their earlier experiences.
                     

These discussions gave us great inspiration to write our own "Elf applications".  Students came up with interesting adjectives to describe themselves in hopes of persuading Santa that they become one of his elves.  They also tried to convince him further with "previous experiences" that would make them "just right" for the job.

Which "Elf" convinced you?  Did you find some good "persuasive words" in their application letters?